Lincoln, Neb., March 2, 2015 -- U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska will be the keynote speaker at the annual Nebraska LEAD (Leadership Education/Action Development) Program recognition banquet March ... Read More

The Chadron City Council on Monday night formally recommended to the federal Department of Transportation that Boutique Air of San Francisco be awarded the Essential Air Service subsidy contracts for service to Denver from Chadron and Alliance. The A... Read More

A Gering man who is serving the maximum sentence on a crime he pleaded 'no contest' to in December is now facing a new charge.
23-year-old John Marsh is accused of injuring Scotts Bluff County Detention Center inmate Stephen Engelhart on February ... Read More

TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) reminds Kansans that early March through the end of April is the time when large areas of the state’s Flint Hills rangeland are burned, a practice that can impact air quality. ... Read More

The city of Gering has decided they need to study more than one future landfill site.
The city has a purchased site on Alan and Patricia Weinhold's property a mile and a half east of the city limits, but City Engineer Paul Snarr says they need to ... Read More

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2015 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced interest rates for March 2015. The CCC borrowing rate-based charge for March is 0.250 percent, unchanged from 0.250 percent in Febru... Read More

National Agriculture Day, March 18, spotlights American agriculture and serves as a reminder that agriculture is part of us all. The U.S. Agricultural Safety and Health Centers join producers, agricultural associations, corporations, students and gov... Read More

The Scottsbluff City Council Monday evening approved using a three percent across the board hiring lapse to help cover a $270,000 budget shortfall. The three percent cut will be achieved primarily through departments having waited a couple months to ... Read More

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is slated to host a debate on the effects of regulating carbon emissions.
The forum is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in downtown Lincoln.
A pa... Read More